Friday, August 30, 2013

Finding the funny

I don't know why, but of late my sense of humor has not been what it sometimes is. I used to be able to laugh at things more than I do now. But there are still things I find funny.

Someone posted this on ITFF. (They got it off Twitter, but I didn't see it when it was making the rounds there:)

Ten
Twenty
Thirty
Forty
Fifty
Sixty
Sixtyten
“What?”
Four twenties
“France, stop it.”
Four twenties and ten
“France you’re drunk.”

Hee. As someone who maybe isn't a real Francophone (but could probably play one on tv), I find that amusing. "Four twenties," indeed.

I mean, I'm sure there's a real, and meaningful linguistic reason for it (and I seem to remember something about an older base-four system that predated the decimal system in many things), but still, it's funny. 

And something else funny - from FailBlog. THIS is the way to deal with people you don't like all that well (or don't even know all that well) begging you to knit them stuff:

2 comments:

Dyddgu said...

Welsh has sets like
Fifteen
One on fifteen
Two on fifteen
Twice nine
Four on fifteen
Twenty

Then big numbers are multiples of twenty, up to 100. But fifty is 'half one hundred'. Languages are fun ;-)

CGHill said...

The variant of French spoken in Belgium has actual words for 70 and 90 (septante, nonante), but I think 80 is still quatre-vingt.